Focus of the Month
May 2012
Patience
Foot off the gas by Chip Walker
There is a path that leads home. Away from the constructs and beliefs that we call ‘reality’. We know this home exists. Our hearts know it, yearn for it. These yearnings are the very proof of it.
To ignore its beckoning call until the sands of our short time run out, is to shun the very reason that the hourglass was set into motion at all.
Thusly compelled, we set forth as if our life depends on it, for truly, it does.
At first, ravenous enthusiasm surges. Our drive is strong. We want to get there! Filled with the passion and vigor that starting out can bring, we push for ‘faster’. We attempt to eat up what we think of as ‘distance’.
Inevitably, this hungry approach proves itself counter-productive. On such demanding terrain, eagerness can be unsafe, even harmful. Yielding to what is, to conditions as they are, becomes mandatory. Agenda must be relinquished in favor of a more co-operative pace. Clearly, the only way to progress, is to stop striving for progress.
Naturally, frustration and impatience rise, fighting this conundrum with the one thing they know; more push. This, of course, does nothing but grind the gears, bringing everything to a halt. Discouragement sets in, with all of its appealing rationale. The desire to return to the familiar pulls strongly. The sirens call seductively from the shores of comfort and pleasure.
Here is the crossroads. For most, the journey ends.
But for some, this becomes the moment of genesis. Commitment and conviction are now fully gestated. Questing dies as living is born. Settling in to permanent surrender breathes its first breaths. Timelessness comes on strong as endless sustenance flows freely.
Home has arrived.
There is now here.
The path has spoken its name……..It is called Yoga.
